First shooting videogame
- Who
- Spacewar!
- What
- First
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 1961
The very first shooting game reaches back to the earliest days of the gaming medium: Spacewar! was created in 1961, by MIT students Martin Graetz, Steve Russell and Wayne Wiitanen on a DEC PDP-1, and consists of two spaceships firing missiles at each other, viewed from an overhead perspective. GWR Video Gamer's Edition 2008, title: first shooting game.